Adjustable skirt for shirts



Patented July 28, 1931 PATENT OFFICE FRANK B. BEGGS, F SHERRILL, NEW YORK;

, ADJUSTABLE SKIRT FOR SHIRTS Y Application filed October 31, 1927. Serial No. 229,950.

This invention relates to a coat shirt for men having the usual skirt projecting downward, below the waist line and hips of the wearer and open at the front from the neck band to the bottom thereof.

In the use of shirts of this character, particularly by men of large girth, considerable difliculty is experienced in keeping the shirt down in proper position below the trousers 19 hand, the tendency being to work up above the trousers during the exercise of walking or other exertion and the main object of the present invention is to provide the skirt of the shirt with a simple and eilicient means for tightening or contracting the lower end of the skirt more or less tightly around the thighs and below the hips to reduce the liability of raising of the shirt above the waist band of the trousers. Other objects W and uses will be brought out in the following description.

In the drawings ;Figure l, is a front face view of a mans coat shirt equipped with my invention. Figure 2, is an enlarged horizontal view takenon line 2-2, Figure 1.

The shirt is divided along the center of the front from the neck band to the bottom of the skirt so that the opposite edges thereof may over-lap and be secured together by the usual buttons (2) and button-holes,

-3 which are arranged in vertically spaced relation from the neck band downward )to approximately the waist line as a-a I The remaining portion of the shirt below the waist line aconstitute what may be termed the skirt, which extends below the hip'line as (b) and the opposite edges thereof are provided respectively with a button *2 and plurality of button holes (8) arranged in horizontally spaced relation to receive the button 2 and thus permit the circumferential length of the lower portion of the sln'rt below the hip line to be varied by simply engaging one or the other of the button holes (8) with the button 2.

In other words by this means the lower portion of the shirt may be drawn inwardly below the hips as indicated by full lines in Figure l, and from the normal position indicated by the dotted lines thereby tightening the bottom of the skirt around the thighs, below the hips, and reducing the liability of the upward displacement of the skirt above the trousers band.

What I claim is A coat shirt having a skirt portion extending from the waist to below the hip line and divided at the front the entire length thereof, said skirt being continuous circumferentially except for the said front division, the lower edge of the front portion of the skirt being provided with a button near one side of the division and a plurality of button holes at the other side of the division arranged in spaced relation in a row substantially parallel with the lower edge of the skirt and each adapted to receive the button for adjustably securing the divided portions of the skirt together below the hip In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 19th day of October, 1927.

FRANK B. BEGGS. 

